York Early Music Festival

The York Early Music Festival was established in 1977 in order to celebrate music from the medieval to the baroque presented within an array of historic venues across the city of York. Supported by the Arts Council of England and the City of York, the festival is administered by the National Centre for Early Music.

Opening with Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers presented by I Fagiolini and closing with Solomon’s Knot in their extraordinary rendition of Bruhn’s St Mark Passion, internationally acclaimed guests also include The Sixteen, B’Rock Orchestra & Vocal Consort and Imago Mundi. Our Dowland Day on Monday 6, commemorating the 400th anniversary of one of England’s most celebrated composers, invites you into John Dowland’s very particular world of music, poetry and melancholy, and later in the week we move to the delicate world of French air de cour inspired by the poetry of love with tenor Paul Agnew, mezzo-soprano Helen Charlston and lutenist Sergio Bucheli.